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I don't quite understand the fighting sequence in ep11. Could someone explain to me what happened?

When Homura jumped down from the truck over the bridge, she landed on 3 tube that raised from the water. What are those?
After that, there were two long horizontal things that hit the witch, what's that?
Then soon after, there was an array of red blinking laser things that exploded. What are those?

Note that I'd like some more intelligent answers than missile launchers and bombs.

Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

So, I'm not sure if this was asked in the ep11-12 thread since it moved way too fast for me to keep up, so I'll ask it here.

In episode 12, when Madoka makes her wish, it shows her talking to Mami in her apartment. Eventually, Kyoko shows up, but not Sayaka. That makes me think it's not just in her head, or in "heaven" or whatever, but likely a past timeline where she wanted the same thing but didn't have the potential. However, the drama cd seems to indicate this isn't the case. So... yeah, what's up with that scene?

So, I'm not sure if this was asked in the ep11-12 thread since it moved way too fast for me to keep up, so I'll ask it here.

In episode 12, when Madoka makes her wish, it shows her talking to Mami in her apartment. Eventually, Kyoko shows up, but not Sayaka. That makes me think it's not just in her head, or in "heaven" or whatever, but likely a past timeline where she wanted the same thing but didn't have the potential. However, the drama cd seems to indicate this isn't the case. So... yeah, what's up with that scene?

It is open for viewer's interpretation. It can be inside Madoka's heart, brain maybe heaven or hell. It's no such definite answer for it.

In particular, that led me to suggest that the conversation took place before Madoka started acting... and that... maybe... souls get actually destroyed when witches are born. Or ransformed completely. For better or for worse, we don't have enough information to analyze this scene properly.

Seems that Madoka took only MGs who later became Witches; this includes Sayaka. The other girls -- i.e. Kyoko and Mami -- who died in different circumstances other than becoming Witches are otherwise returned.

But Sayaka returns as well, nonetheless. Makes you wonder where to place the audition scene on the continuity... Maybe what we saw actually took place after Sayaka's death in timeline 6?

Pretty sure it did. It seems like Madoka was alleviating Sayaka's grief by showing her the fruit of her labor, and reminding her of what she truly desired. Especially since immediately after that was everyone reacting to Sayaka's disappearance.

considering that the given meme seems to be exclusive for mami's use, the character 円 - which can be used for madoka and could mean round, circle, spherical; i would consider that this has something to do with her 'assets' but i like a japanese confirmation for this, hehehe

Mami was considered to be a playing-cool character since she was the only one that used a final move, shouted its name and liked to use special terms like Witch's Kiss, and her battle style was elegant and so on. Her fans were making a joke of her behaviour. And then all of a sudden, she said "円環の理" a theatrical exaggerated special term, which the fans felt suited for her personality perfectly. There's only one thing to do.

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Are you going to say "budget"? Wait! Is your point really related to budget? Isn't it time or style?
Simply put, production time is consistency, and budget is framerate.
Even poor animation is costlier than a high-quality still shot.

I just finished episode three and like some people were surpised. So looking past the fact that Mami was supposed to die because well, Urobuchi wrote it that she would, speaking strictly in story why did she die though? Was she too overconfident in that fight or was the monster too strng for her? I just find it kind of weird that she got taken out by a monster like that and so early too.